Here’s what happens if you put the tree up too early

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The tree has been relegated to the back garden this year but that pesky battery-powered Santa had better watch out

My younger colleagues tell me that Twitter is humming with debate over the correct time to put up your Christmas tree. Good to see that the new(ish) technology is being put to such high intellectual use. Still, never mind that, allow me to join in.

When to fire the starting pistol on Christmas? That’s the question, and it’s certainly a tricky one. The notion that the Christmas build-up begins earlier and earlier each year, and that this is a Very Bad Thing, has become a British conversational staple, like talking about the weather or barmy Brussels bureaucrats. No one wants